jkim-hack / cse3902

The Legend of Zelda (NES 1986)

CSE 3902 SP 21

Names (Group 1):

• Alex Book
• Andrew Fecher
• John Kim
• Pranav Koduri
• Smera Palanivel
• Dev Patel

Game Controls

Player Controls

• Arrow keys and 'wasd' to move Link when in game play mode
• '1' to attack with Link's sword
• '2' for Link's secondary item
• Arrow keys to choose items when in drop down menu
• 'e' to access the drop down menu
• 'p' to pause the game and open settings menu
• 'r' to reset the game (dying or being grabbed by a wall master also resets the game)
• 'q' to quit the game

Mouse Controls

• Left click on the door in each room, and if there is a room on the other side of the door, the camera will move to the other room.
• Right click at the top of the item room to leave the item room or at the bottom of the room with the traps to enter the item room.
• Right click at the top or bottom of a room with a portal to go through it.
• Left click the picture icon for a setting in the pause menu to change the mode (easy/normal/hard).

Settings

• Utilities
  • Easy: 'j' to increase max health (max 16 hearts), 'h' to decrease max health (min 1 heart), 'l' to increase health, 'k' to decrease health (min half heart), Space to kill all enemies in the room
  • Normal: No controls
  • Hard: 'h' to decrease max health (min 1 heart), 'k' to decrease health (min half heart)
• Health
  • Easy: Regenerate half heart about every 15 seconds
  • Normal: No effect
  • Hard: Lose half heart about every 60 seconds (min half heart)
• Vision
  • Easy: Full vision
  • Normal: Medium vision range
  • Hard: Very low vision range
• Min. Projectile Health
  • Easy: Sword projectile always shoots
  • Normal: Sword projectile shoots when not below max health by more than 2 hearts
  • Hard: Sword projectile only shoots at full health
• Item Drops
  • Easy: High item drop rates when killing an enemy
  • Normal: Medium item drop rates when killing an enemy
  • Hard: Low item drop rates when killing an enemy
• Enemy Strength (NOTE: These changes are only applied after the game is reset)
  • Easy: Low enemy health and damage
  • Normal: Medium enemy health and damage
  • Hard: High enemy health and damage

Known Bugs

Credits

• The portal texture was borrowed from Minecraft.

cse3902's Issues

Implement Link being hit

fix camera

add new method to display menu bar properly

Inventory HUD item

Remove all TODOs from the code

Replace Link's damage indication to be more game accurate

Move Game Camera + Increase Game size

Increase window size and move the dungeon display down.

Create the HUD grid manager

• Make sure to interface with HUD items to organize the display

Create block classes

Add boomerang directional changes

utilize lerp function

Implement resetting the level upon the player character's death.

Fix Keese frame bug

Make game follow sprint 2 directions with all the required implementations

Change animation callbacks to having return values in Update instead for sprites

Make Link's items be layered on top of the room background

Currently the items are not being shown because the room background is on the foreground.

Remove all magic numbers and strings by making utility classes

Link pickup animation

Create a Link class

Add Link state transitions

Figure out xml/csv file input

track conditions for certain rooms

closed doors opens when block is pushed or all the enemies in a room are killed

Minimap HUD Item

Implement Sprite Factory

Add ICollidable to all collidable objects

Inventory HUD Display

Create the HUD module that shows Link's current items

Handle removal of objects in the game

When some entities collide, they will need to be removed. Create IRemovable interface and RemovalHandler to manage the removal of these objects/entities.

Import spritesheet

Update enemy movement

Create controller classes

Map and Compass HUD items

Health HUD item

Fix infinite Aquamentus damage mask

May also apply to other entities - only observed with Aquamentus

Implement Collision for all entities using quad trees

Create command classes

spike cross trap

needs to be implemented

Add projectile interface and implement classes

Create item classes

Link pickup to add to HUD

Add in damage disabler for entities to fix the insta kill bug

Have like a "grace period" every time an entity gets hit

Refractor instance variables to private and add properties

Fix enemy movement in one block wide paths

Enemies have trouble navigating areas that are one block wide (water rooms for example). Make their movement smoother in these rooms.

Create enemy classes

Implement behavior for collision interactions

Every class that can be collided with now has an ICollidable. The task to work out all of the behaviors that need to be executed from these collisions is still in progress.

Finalize Room transitions

Have Blocks, and doors stay during transitions

Fix Aquamentus fireballs not showing

Create README document

Write up a document with useful information on your project. This might include: program controls, descriptions of known bugs that program has, and details of any tools or processes your team used that aren't explicitly required (for example, calculating and using Code Metrics as part of your design process)

Implement sound manager

Create and add damage masks for every damagable entity

Item pickup animation

Create global layer constants

Create NPC class